Charlie Wilson obituary

Flamboyant Texan congressman who masterminded covert US support for the mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan war

Sir John Dankworth obituary

Celebrated figure of British jazz with a 60-year career as a performer, composer, bandleader and educationist

Actor who brought sympathetic dimensions to the comic twerp Bertie Wooster and the shrewd detective Lord Peter Wimsey

Elegant star of US TV series from the 1950s onwards

Classics scholar whose multi-faceted career was dominated by his 1970 novel Love Story

American photographer whose informal shots defined the youthful glamour of the 1950s and 1960s

Other lives: Irish playwright and actor who appeared in The Magdalene Sisters and carved out a niche in Dublin's theatre community

A talented Irish actor on stage and in films for Ford and Huston

Influential teacher, critic and pioneer in the field of film studies

Distinguished Italian film director noted for art documentaries

Italian model and film actor, she left the cinema and joined the jet set

Popular actor known for his roles in Callan, The Equalizer and The Wicker Man

Character actor and comedian who specialised in Jewish roles

South African actor who helped break the taboos of apartheid

One of the world's leading wildlife photographers and film-makers